it looks more like mexico or brazil or russia. income inequality that statistics on income inequality now suggest tha inequality is hig tr in the united states than it is in egypt. that's quite a journey from where we were when i was growing up. >> right now i think it's where 're seeing the kind of better fruit of winner-take-all politics because the financial crisis was not an act of god or work of nature. it was brought on by poor decisions that were made in washington and on wall street. yes, there's a global dimension of this but a big part of it was failures of domestic policy. if you look to our northern neighbor, canada, it had nothing like the same definition banking crisis as the united states did and that's partly because it had much more effective regulations of the financial sector. you know over this period that we saw lerage and speculation increasing on wall street, washington, both democrats ande republicans, were trying as hard as they could to allow wall street to do even more. >> so rewinner-take-all politic ha